Upcoming Events

Math Events Have Moved

Please visit the Math Department Events Calendar for current event information.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Mathematics Awareness Month Public Lecture
Paul VellemanCornell University
Surfing the data deluge
Please join us outside the auditorium at 2:15 PM for refreshments after the talk.

1:00 PM
Malott 228
Monday, April 23, 2012

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Woo Song ChoiCornell University
Turbulence and singular shocks in continuum dislocation dynamics
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

11:15 AM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Jason AnemaCornell University
Counting spanning trees on fractal graphs

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar
Jay SchweigUniversity of Kansas
Graph domination parameters, projective dimension, and independence complexes

2:30 PM
Malott 206
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Vasilis SyrgkanisCornell University
Title TBA

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Logic Seminar
Karen LangeWellesley College
Degrees of orderings on torsion-free abelian groups

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Fabian ChudakD-Wave Systems
D-Wave One: facts and prospects of adiabatic quantum computing
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Olivetti Club
Alex FokCornell University
An invitation to geometric quantization
Refreshments at 3:55 PM in the lounge.

4:25 PM
Malott 406
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

AWM Tea Time Tiny Talk
Marisa HughesCornell University
Matroids

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
The atomic model theorem I

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Oliver Club
Tobias ColdingMIT
Singularities and dynamics of mean curvature flow
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.

4:00 PM
Malott 532
Friday, April 27, 2012

Dynamical Systems Seminar
Giulio TiozzoHarvard University
Core entropy of quadratic polynomials and dimension of sets of external rays

2:15 PM
Malott 230
CAM Colloquium
Zari RachevStony Brook University
Market crashes and modeling volatile markets
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

3:30 PM
Rhodes 253
Monday, April 30, 2012

Scientific Computing and Numerics (SCAN) Seminar
Dave SchneiderUSDA Research
The complexity of simple epidemic models
Sponsored jointly by the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science.

11:15 AM
Upson 315
Analysis Seminar
Ilya SpitkovskyCollege of William and Mary
The current state of the almost periodic factorization

2:30 PM
Malott 406
Computer Science Theory Seminar
Faith EllenUniversity of Toronto
A little advice can be very helpful

4:00 PM
Upson 5130
Probability Seminar
Clinton ConleyCornell University
Translation-invariant random colorings of Cayley graphs

4:00 PM
Malott 406
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Dan ZaffranKAIST
Foliations modeling nonrational toric varieties

1:30 PM
Malott 203
Logic Seminar
Slawek SoleckiUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An abstract approach to Ramsey theory with applications to Ramsey theorems for finite trees

2:55 PM
Malott 206
ORIE Colloquium
Vineet GoyalColumbia University
Power of robust and affine solutions in dynamic optimization
Refreshments at 3:45 PM in 258 Rhodes Hall.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 253
Math Club
Derek LougeeCornell University
Percolation on lattices

4:30 PM
Malott 532
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Logic Seminar
Richard ShoreCornell University
The atomic model theorm II

4:00 PM
Malott 206
Statistics Seminar
Martin WainwrightUniversity of California at Berkeley
High-dimensional statistics and convex programming: unreasonably fast convergence of first-order gradient methods

4:15 PM
Biotech G01
What Is... Seminar
Mathias LedererUniversität Bielefeld and Cornell University
What is a Schubert polynomial?

5:30 PM
Malott 207
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Computer Science Theory Seminar
Shuchi ChawlaUniversity of Wisconsin
Bayesian mechanisms for scheduling

12:00 PM
Upson 5130
CAM Colloquium
Erika CamachoArizona State University
Tracing the progression of retinitis pigmentosa via photoreceptor interactions
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.

4:15 PM
Rhodes 655
Friday, May 4, 2012

Dynamical Systems Seminar
John HubbardCornell University
Wakes of cubic polynomials

2:15 PM
Malott 230
Oliver Club
John MilnorStony Brook University
Small denominators: adventures through the looking glass
Reception to follow at the Big Red Barn.

4:00 PM
Rockefeller Schwartz Aud.